Nauru's Parliament has resumed in the midst of a tense standoff after opposition MPs were suspended for talking to foreign media, including the ABC.

The suspension of three MPs - Kieren Keke, Roland Kun and Mathew Batsiua - on Tuesday saw parliament descend into chaos after police were called.

On Wednesday, supporters of Dr Keke protested outside the parliament, calling for him to be allowed to continue to sit.

Dr Keke has told Pacific Beat he reached a compromise with the speaker, Ludwig Scotty, during Wednesday's session to avoid escalating tensions.

"My constituents...basically demanded that I continue to go to parliament, attend parliament, and represent them and I said that if parliament was to continue...then I've got no choice but to attempt to be in the chamber and represent the people that have voted for me," he said.

"That obviously was going to cause further conflict, unnecessary violence - there were a lot of people outside protesting already, emotions were heated and there was obviously just a recipe for disaster.

"So the speaker...told government that he would not proceed with the sitting and he adjourned the House."

Parliament resumed on Thursday morning with the government trying to push through a supplementary budget.

Mr Kun and Mr Batsiua have been out of the country during this week's sitting.

Dr Keke says the speaker is seeking legal advice, but that process is being hampered by the government's removal of key figures in the country's judiciary.

'(They) are trying to put Nauru in darkness'

"I was outside the Parliament with hundreds of people - they were protesting and chanting - (but) much of the commotion was inside the Parliament House," he said.

Mr Deidenang says he was arrested, taken to the police station and later released without any charge.

He says the police told him that he could not take photos of any members of parliament outside Parliament.

Mr Deidenang says the police have stopped him before when he was taking photos of asylum seekers at Nauru's Australian-run immigration detention centre.

He says his photographs get published in the Australian and international media as well as on the Internet.

"I just think the Australian Government and the Nauru Government are trying to put a blanket on Nauru to put it in darkness so the international community won't know anything what's going on here," he told the ABC's The World.

"It's a threat to democracy, it's a threat to freedom of expression, freedom of speech, freedom of information," he said.

"Nauru's a democracy state and it shouldn't be doing these kind of things against every principle of democracy."

The ABC has asked for comment from the Nauru government on Mr Deidenang's claims but is yet to receive a response.

Nauru voted to 'protect nation's reputation'

Nauru's Justice Minister David Adeang says comments made by Dr Keke and his colleagues to foreign media were damaging Nauru's development.

This has nothing to do with censorship.

David Adeang, Nauru Justice Minister

"They were suspended due to their deliberate attempts... undermining the good work of the Waqa Government to introduce Bendigo Bank to the island, and which also led to concerns raised by donors, and considerations to suspend aid programs to Nauru," he said in a statement on Wednesday.

"This has nothing to do with censorship and the claims made by Mr Keke today have been outrageous."

Mr Adeang says the government and "people of Nauru have had enough".

"There is a place to argue your point and that is here in the parliament.

"These MPs have done what no other country would deem acceptable - use the foreign media to trash our international reputation."

Dr Keke says the opposition is doing its job in holding the government to account.

"It would be the first time where anywhere in the world, where the Opposition has more influence on what others think than the sitting government and that's just absurd," he said.

"It's clear that other governments that deal with Nauru...expect that the Opposition is going to scrutinise and criticise and that's what Opposition's are there for, to keep governments on task and to scrutinise governments.

"So to suggest that Opposition members doing their job, scrutinising, criticising, highlighting their failures and offering alternatives is so influential that it's impacting on national development either says that this government is a total failure or it's just ludicrous."